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Workslop Cost & Verification-Tax Calculator
AI “time saved” is often just time moved — to whoever has to verify and redo the polished-but-hollow output. This puts a dollar figure on it, per team and org-wide, from your own numbers.
No baked-in “$186 per employee” figure. Every dollar is computed from the inputs you enter, so the number is yours to defend — not an industry stat.
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$49
instant download · .xlsx · yours to keep
The problem
The AI “draft” that someone else finishes.
Looks done
polished formatting and confident prose read as finished work — until someone checks it.
Isn't done
the numbers, sources, or logic need verifying or redoing by the person who received it.
Cost is hidden
that verification tax lands on a colleague's week and never shows up on a dashboard.
See it work
Your numbers, your verification tax.
Try it — your numbers only
12
40%
2.0
1.5 h
$70
Monthly hours lost14.4 h
VerdictLEAKING
$1,008
Monthly cost
$12,096
Annual cost
$84
$ / head / mo
The verdict is the cost per head, not the raw total — a small team can leak more per person than a big one. CONTAINED under $50 · LEAKING under $150 · EPIDEMIC at or above, all editable.
Or load the six-team example
| Team | Monthly | Annual | $/head | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marketing | $1,436 | $17,237 | $120 | LEAKING |
| Engineering | $1,924 | $23,085 | $107 | LEAKING |
| Customer Success | $693 | $8,316 | $77 | LEAKING |
| Finance | $240 | $2,880 | $40 | CONTAINED |
| Sales | $688 | $8,256 | $49 | CONTAINED |
| Ops | $123 | $1,475 | $15 | CONTAINED |
| ORG TOTAL | $5,104 | $61,248 | SOME LEAKING |
Org rollup takes the worst team, not the average — worst team by $/head: Marketing. Every figure is computed from the inputs; no per-employee stat is baked in. A planning estimate, offline; it scores teams, not people.
The standard
Three rules it never breaks.
No invented stat
Every dollar traces to an input you entered. No per-employee multiplier is hidden in a cell.
Cost per head, not total
The verdict scores intensity per person, so a small team can't hide a real leak behind a small total.
Scores teams, not people
It sizes a workflow problem across a team. It never scores, ranks, or names an individual.
How it works
Inputs in, a defensible number out.
- 1.For each team, enter headcount, the share receiving workslop, incidents per receiver, rework hours per incident, and a loaded hourly rate.
- 2.The workbook computes monthly hours lost, monthly and annual cost, and the cost per head with live formulas.
- 3.It bands each team CONTAINED, LEAKING, or EPIDEMIC against thresholds you can edit.
- 4.The Dashboard rolls the org up to the worst team, names it, and totals the monthly and annual verification tax.
What you'll see
The line item nobody was tracking.
A per-team table of monthly and annual cost with a per-head verdict, plus an org rollup that names your worst team and totals the monthly and annual verification tax. It is a planning estimate from your own numbers — not accounting or financial advice, and it connects to nothing.
Who it's for
For the operator who suspects AI is moving cost, not cutting it.
For
- Founders and ops leads sizing the real cost of AI adoption.
- Managers who keep re-checking “finished” AI-assisted work.
- Anyone who needs a defensible before/after to justify a fix.
Not for
- Gating an individual deliverable — use the Internal AI Handoff QA Gate.
- Scoring or ranking a person — it sizes teams, not people.
- An audited financial figure — it is a planning estimate.
Common questions
Answers before you buy.
Whatever the hours to verify and redo it are worth — this calculator turns that into a monthly and annual dollar figure, per team and org-wide. You enter headcount, the share of people receiving hollow AI output, how often it happens, the rework hours per incident, and a loaded hourly rate; it returns the monthly cost, the cost per head, and a verdict: CONTAINED, LEAKING, or EPIDEMIC. The six-team example rolls up to about $5,100 a month; your number depends entirely on your inputs.
No — and that is the point. There is no baked-in per-employee multiplier anywhere in the workbook. Every dollar is computed from the numbers you enter, so the figure is defensible in a way that quoting an industry stat never is. The widely-reported context numbers (roughly two hours per incident, a large share of workers hit monthly) are shown as background, not used in the math.
It scores cost per head per month, not the raw total, so a small team can read worse than a big one. Under $50 per head is CONTAINED, under $150 is LEAKING, and $150 or above is EPIDEMIC — all three thresholds are editable cells, so you can set the lines your finance team would accept. The org rollup takes the worst team, not the average, and names it.
This calculator measures the cost of workslop; the Internal AI Handoff QA Gate ($79) stops it at the source by gating a deliverable before it is handed off. Measure with this, fix with that. If you want both plus a 90-day playbook that sequences them, the Workslop → Handoff Bundle pairs them for less than buying each alone.
No. It is a plain .xlsx with live formulas — no API call, no upload, no login, no AI. It opens in Excel, Google Sheets, or Numbers and recomputes as you change your numbers. It scores teams and workflows, never individual people.
It is a planning estimate built from your own assumptions, not accounting or financial advice. Use it to size the problem, prioritize which team to fix first, and prove a before/after — not as an audited number for the books.
Get the Kit
Price the workslop before you fix it.
- One .xlsx — Start Here, Workslop Calculator, Dashboard.
- Live formulas, editable thresholds, a worked six-team example.
- Your numbers only — no AI, no upload, no login.
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